History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c13.37

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Finally in the 13th year of his reign on the Kumārī hill, i. e., on Udayagiri, where the Jina Mahāvīra had preached his religion, he made arrangements for the distribution of white clothes to the Jaina monks. There is a reference to a relic memorial at this place. Such relic memorials were common in Upper India, references to them having been found in inscriptions.¹ In this year King Khāravela seems to have devoted himself entirely to religious meditation and work. At the end of the 1.14, he is said to have realized the relation of the soul to the body (Jiva-deha-samghātam.)